Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria has submitted a 55 man provisional list of players he intends to pick his final squad of players from for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Hurting from failing to pick the ticket to represent Africa at the Intercontinental playoff for a world cup spot, the coach has wasted no time in switching his attention to the AFCON in Morocco.
We exclusively gathered that the team’s camp will open on the 8th of December in Morocco, but before then the coach would have trimmed the players on the provisional list to a minimum of 30 players.
Sources say the list he submitted contains names of players who are relatively unknown, but have been on the radar of the coach for some time and he sees them as a part of the team in the nearest future.
However he stuck with most of the players he has worked with since taking over as coach, and he goes to the AFCON with the sole aim of going on step better than the team did at the last tournament, where they were beaten in the final by the host Cote d’Ivoire.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
